Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (February 12, 2021)

The Faltering Escalator of Urban Opportunity; What does it mean when water is traded as a commodity‪?; Bill Gates On The Next Crisis; The Economics of Biodiversity: the Dasgupta Review

1. Read: The Faltering Escalator of Urban Opportunity: The migration of less-educated and lower-income individuals and families toward high-wage cities has reversed course. Since 1980, college-educated workers have been steadily moving into affluent cities while non-college workers have been moving out. [by David Autor, MIT]

2. Read: The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: This Report analyzes the geopolitical implications of the global energy transformation driven by renewables [via the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) ]

3. Listen: What does it mean when water is traded as a commodity‪?‬ Water futures are now being traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

4. Listen: Designing more effective interventions to prevent childhood stunting: Evidence from Nigeri‪a‬ [via VoxDev Talks]

5. Watch: The Economics of Biodiversity: the Dasgupta Review | The Royal Society

6. Chart of the Week: The Most Innovative Economies in the World [via Statista]

   

7. Watch: Bill Gates On The Next Crisis